Sr Engineer - Compute Virtualization

expertise in Go, Linux, virtualization, networking, storage, and production operations. Understanding of Kubernetes and docker/containers is a plus. Education Qualification: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; Master's degree is a plus. Experience: 5+ years of relevant experience in software development and cloud concepts/infrastructure What You’ll Bring 5+ years of relevant software/platform engineering experience with a 4 years bachelor’s degree. Core Technical Skills • Programming: Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) and solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and software design. • Linux & Virtualization: Hands-on experience with Linux/Ubuntu, KVM, libvirt, or comparable server virtualization technologies. • Containers: Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes and container technologies such as containerd/Docker. • Distributed Services: Experience building microservices and REST/g RPC APIs. • Infrastructure: Strong fundamentals in compute, networking, storage, load balancing, high availability, security, and failure recovery. • Automation: Experience with Ansible or comparable infrastructure automation/configuration-management tools. • Observability: Hands-on experience with Prometheus/Open Telemetry, Grafana, Influx DB, Telegraf, or equivalent observability platforms. • Testing: Experience building unit, integration, and automated infrastructure/service tests. • Engineering Practices: Strong knowledge of Git, CI/CD, code reviews, automated testing, and production software-development practices. • Production Operations: Proven experience deploying, operating, monitoring, and troubleshooting • Deep knowledge of virtualization, container runtimes, distributed systems, or infrastructure platform engineering. • Understanding of docker/container What You’ll Do • Design and build scalable, resilient compute infrastructure and platform services. • Develop production-quality services and infrastructure components using Go (Golang). • Build and operate virtualization platforms using KVM, libvirt, and Linux. • Develop REST/g RPC APIs and microservices for infrastructure automation and platform capabilities. • Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, testing, and operational workflows using tools such as Ansible. • Build observability into platforms using Prometheus/Open Telemetry, Grafana, Influx DB, and Telegraf. • Troubleshoot complex production issues across compute, Linux, networking, storage, and virtualization. • Improve platform availability, performance, scalability, operational readiness, and failure recovery. • Participate in design reviews, code reviews, incident response, root-cause analysis, and production support. • Provide technical guidance to engineers and collaborate with partner teams on architecture and platform decisions Target is one of the world’s most recognized brands and one of America’s leading retailers. We make Target our guests’ preferred shopping destination by offering outstanding value, inspiration, innovation and an exceptional guest experience that no other retailer can deliver. Target is committed to responsible corporate citizenship, ethical business practices, environmental stewardship and generous community support. Since 1946, we have given 5 percent of our profits back to our communities. Our goal is to work as one team to fulfill our unique brand promise to our guests, wherever and whenever they choose to shop. We'll contact you if you're selected for next steps. In the meantime, follow us at A Bullseye View for the latest news. Our Benefits We care about and invest in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.